Die for forming carriage-step pads



(No Model.) i D. 1". SOUTHWICK.

DIE FOR FORMING GARRIAGE STEP PADS.

Patented May 15,1883.

- HWENTOR WZW Y WITNESSES.

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

DANIEL F. SOUTHWICK, 0F MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

DlE FOR FORMING CARRIAGE- STEP PADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,853, dated May 15, 1883.

I Application filed December 19, 1881. (No modelJ To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL F. SOUTHWICK,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dies for Forming Carriage-Step Pads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figurel represents the two sides of a tinished steppad; and Fig.2, views of the upper die, B, and lower die, A.

The design of my invention is to make a carriage-steppad at a single heat and by means of a single pair of dies, and Iacoomplish this object by the devices and in the manner hereinafter described-that is to say, a bar of iron, preferably flat iron, is cut off of a length containing metal enough to make the shank and body of the step-pad, and the part intended to form the shank is rounded and made cylindrical by inserting it, while hot, in the half-round groove a of the lower die, A, and causing it to be struck by the upper die, B, which has a corresponding half-round groove of the same size, after which the remaining or flat portion of the blank, while hot, is placed in the recess 1) of the lower die, A, and shape is given thereto, so that the resultant product of that portion of the die will correspond in shape with the body of the st p-pad, as shown in Fig. 1. The flush or fin is to be trimmed or sheared off in the usual manner, by means of trimmers or otherwise.

The dies A and B are made of hard metal,

preferably steel. The lower die, A, has on one partofits face a half-round groove, as shown at a, Fig. 2-,andon the other part of its facial surface asquare or rectangular or other shaped depression. b, ofeven depth, and on one side thereofnameiy, thatwhieh forms the sideof the body of the step'pad next the shank-is a haltround groove, '0, extending out to the side of the die. The upper die, B, is provided with a half-round groove, d, corresponding with and opposite toa similargroove on the lower die, and has, also, a groove or depression, 0, of considerable depth, opposite the con ter of the depression in the lower die, this transverse depression being preferably-of a semi-conical shape-that is to say, of the shape of acone bisected by a line drawn from its apex to the center of its base. v

in operating these dies the lower or anvil die, A, is held stationary in a bed-plate, and the upper die, 15, may he held and operated by and in a hammer or in a drop-press operated by motive power.

Having thus described my ll]\\,lllll0ll, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp The dies'forforming both shank and body of carriage-step pads at a single heat, consistiug-of the upper die, B, with its depressionse and (Z, and the lower die, A, provided with recesses and grooves a, b, and c, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

' DANIEL F. SOUTHWICK. Witnesseszt H. T. FENTON,

S. W. KENT. 

